Omnibus, tram-car, garden, or other seat.



3 .0. 9 .l `2 E N J D .E T N E. ml.. A P

A E T S A H R OMNIBUS, TRAM oAmGARDEN. 0R OTHER SEAT.

'ATrLIo'ATIon Hmm Ju. 9L 1901 ntnwsn nu a. 1903.

B SHEETS-SHEET -1.

No MODEL.

No, 730,189'. A y PATENTEDSJUNB 2.71903.L

OMNIBUS, TRAM GAR, GARDEN, on OTHER SEAT.

APPLICATION-111.121) JAN. 9. 1901. BEHEWED HAY 8. 1903. I

No 110mm. a slums-snm 2.

UNITED STATES l Patented June 2,- 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

OMNIBUS, TRANI-CAR, GARDEN, OR OTHER SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 730,189, dated June 2,1903. -Application filed January 9, 1901. Renewed May 8, 1903. SerialNo. 156,221. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, EDWIN REGINALD HAL- STEAD, a subject of the Queen ofGreat Britain and Ireland, residing at and whose postoflice address isBrunton House, Warwick road, Carlisle, in the county of Cumberland,England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in orRelating to Omnibus,

'Tram-Car, Garden, or other Seats, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to omnibus, tram-car, garden, and other seats, andhas for its object to provide for the seat-surface being kept dry orclean when not in use.

In the drawings, Figures l, 2, and 3 are side views of theseat with theparts thereof in different positions. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are front views,respectively, of Figs. 1, 2, and 3.

I make the seat-surface A in two portions act', one, a, of which is xedto the usual seatframing B, while the other, a', is movable and hingedat a2 a2 to the fixed portion a. Normally the movable portion a liesover the xed portion a, as shown in Figs. l and 4, and so serves as acover therefor when out of use; but it is adapted when the seat isrequired for use to be turned up and over until it lies in the sameplane as the xed portion a, thus completing the seat-surface, as will beevident from Figs. 3 and 6. Figs. 2 and 5 show an intermediate positionof the movable portion a'.

At the under side of the fixed portion a I pivot upon a bracket a3,attached to the under side of the fixed portion a and adj acently to thehinges A0,2 a2 of the two portions a. a', a lever (Lone arm, c, of whichis adapted to coact with the movable portion a', while the other arm,c', is furnished with a weight c2,

io designedto cause the lever C to repose in a position at or aboutright angles to the seat- `surface when in the out-of-use position, asillustrated in Figs. l and 4. Thus it will be understood that when theseat is required for use the person lifts the movable portion on andturns it up and over past the position represented V'by Figs. 2 and 5 tothe position shown in Figs. 3 and 6, and then sits down,

whereupon this portion a' is retained in the desired position inopposition to the tendency of the weighed lever C, which, asrepresented,

assumes a horizontal or like position underneath the seat-surface A.However, on the person rising from the seat the weighted 1ever C at oncereacts to resume its normal position and in so doing returns the movableportion o.' of the seat-surface to lie upon the other, as in Figs. 1 and4.

A back to the seat is not shown in the guros under notice; but of courseone may be provided fand arranged in any of the wellknown ways.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

In combination, a frame, a horizontally-extending seat portion fixedthereto and extending part way across the frame, a vportion d' hinged tothe fixed portion and adapted to lie in the same plane therewith when inuse and to rest on the frame at its free end, said portion when foldedback resting on the xed portion of the seat, and a weighted lever toengage the hinged portion to move it from its .position of use into itsfolded position, sublstantially as described. l

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twowitnesses.

EDWIN REGINALD HAnsTEAf-D.

Witnesses:

HENRY BROGKBANK,l l. y TYsoN PATTINsoN SOWERBY.

